The French influence is huge. A French native speaker with NO knowledge of more modern English prononciation would pronounce it that way. Even some words are right out French spelled, like "lettres".
As a Russian native language speaker, I understand Proto-Slavic by about 90%, and Polish by a maximum of 30%. Perhaps this is also due to the fact that I know Ukrainian. But Proto-Slavic is perceived by ear as Old Russian
Being Danish I actually understand most of this. In present day Denmark this language is what we would Danglish. I never realised Danglish used to be a real language😂
I think the Renata Flores Quechua version just pips it. I do also like the version of Amazing Grace to this tune by The Blind Boys, both are in Ballad Meter which is why it works. Very good work though.
I’m Scottish and although I don’t use the Scots dialect in daily life, like most of my compatriots I imbibed it at my mother’s knee. That dialect bears many resemblances to Old English in terms of pronunciation, so understanding spoken ME is quite easy for us. At 76 years of age I found it amusing to memorise the first 40 lines of the General Prologue to keep help the little grey cells active.
why didnt you translate the modern english properly? you transalted... "and palmeres for to seken straunge strondes" to "and professional pilgrims to see foreign shores" instead of "and pilgrims for to see strange strands" like the next line ended in lands.... it would have rhymed, and you ruined it, IM SO ANgrY!
If there are no English subtitles, I will understand about 50 percent of the words, on a second listen I understand the meaning and root of almost all the other words.Bulgaria
As Croatian who speaks Kajkavian dialect( which retains a lot of archaic words) I understood all of it. Almost all words here are in use in modern Croatian, but they're written differently and spoken differently, but the core remains the same.
@@Multiple-Sclerosis The nasal sound developed from older Proto-Slavic nasal consonants, e.g. pętь once was penti, therefore we can assume that by tye time of OCS they were pronounced as in this video, if not stronger.
